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Magnus Mondays — Is Your Application Really the Problem?

By Magnus Bergfors April 15, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

As a long-time procurement technology analyst, one of the most frequent questions posed to me is what solution an organization should pick after a previous failed implementation. Or, in other…

NEW WEBINAR — AI Decoded: What Every CPO Needs to Know

By Andrew Bartolini April 10, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Join Ardent Partners and Arkestro on April 24th (2 PM ET) for a webcast on AI Decoded: What Every CPO Needs to Know. In 2024, AI is seemingly “everything, everywhere,…

Magnus Mondays: Zip — One App to Rule Them All?

By Magnus Bergfors April 8, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

We’ve written about intake management and procurement process orchestration (IM&PPO) a couple of times previously. It’s certainly a topic and solution set that is gathering a lot of interest from…

CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 1

By Andrew Bartolini April 5, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

It's Friday, which means we're sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams improve…

Magnus Mondays — GenAI Is Cool, but Should Everything be Automated?

By Magnus Bergfors April 1, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

If you haven’t heard about generative AI (GenAI), or even been pitched some type of it, then you’ve been hiding under a stone. There are dozens of articles describing GenAI,…

Technology Round-Up — March 27, 2024

By John Yuva March 27, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…

Magnus Mondays: Ivalua Now 2024 — All in On Generative AI

By Magnus Bergfors March 18, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Future of Work, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Last week I attended my first solution provider conference (as an analyst) since COVID-19. Ivalua hosted the European edition of Ivalua Now in beautiful Versailles just outside Paris. According to…

Technology Round-Up — March 13, 2024

By John Yuva March 13, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Magnus Mondays — Category Management: All Talk No Action?

By Magnus Bergfors March 11, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

When I started in procurement in what feels like way too many years ago, it was as a buyer. A few years later I got a new title, strategic buyer!…

Magnus Mondays: Direct Materials P2P — Is That a Thing?

By Magnus Bergfors March 4, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Today I’m wrapping up our mini-series on direct materials and what differentiates it from indirect by looking at the transactional side — also known as procure to pay (P2P). Because…